Re: [TCLUG:11971] howto question

[Dave Erickson <gsa700@mediaone.net>]

Dave Sherohman wrote:
> 
> Dave Erickson said:
> > I would like to use the "rt" program to display "top" in my root window.
> 
> Given the way that top operates, I'm not so sure that this is possible the
> way you're thinking of doing it.  In theory, I suppose you could have top
> dump its data into a named pipe and use that as the source for rt, but that
> doesn't seem like a very useful way to do it...
> 
> There is, however, another option which is probably closer to what you want:
> Use a maximized, transparent Eterm with top running in it.  (Any other *term
> that supports transparency would work, of course, and you'd probably want to
> set it to 'stay on bottom' if your window manager supports it.)
> 

What if I used "ps aux" and set it to refresh every so often? This is
what I tried first but I am not quite sure about how to output "ps" to a
file. 

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